We are a lower middle-market private equity firm with a passion for helping to build great companies

Longshore Capital Partners, based in Chicago, was established to invest alongside founders and management teams of businesses with unique value propositions in growing end-markets. Before founding Longshore, the Co-Founders built a long history of successful investments in the lower middle-market while Partners at LaSalle Capital.  

We take control positions in services businesses in North America with between $5 million and $15 million of EBITDA. Our thematic investment process and industry experience drive our focus on specific subsectors within the broader services landscape.  We add value by helping management teams execute on a value creation plan purpose-built to accelerates growth, add infrastructure to achieve operational scale, and strategically position each platform as an attractive asset for buyers at exit, often leading to multiple expansion.

Collaboration with our portfolio companies and taking a value-added approach are core to our culture and investing philosophy. We like to roll up our sleeves as we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with management teams to help execute a shared vision, many times in areas outside their core expertise (add-on acquisitions, geographic expansion, sales team buildout – whatever the challenge may be). Beyond our successful track record of helping to build great companies, we take pride in being user friendly and enjoyable to work with. The success we achieve with management teams is shared through incentive programs that align our organization with our portfolio company team members. Further, our investment philosophy does not drive returns from financial engineering – our prudent use of leverage decreases distractions across economic cycles, which tends to maximize returns without excessively increasing risk.